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Nokia Phone Gets Virus Protection

Posted by timothy on from the prophylactic dept.

wan-fu writes "After all that talk about bluetooth vulnerabilities and mobile phone virii there will finally be a mobile phone with virus protection. Nokia's 6670 smart phone will be released in October and features software from F-Secure. Perhaps this will raise the eyebrows of some other mobile phone manufacturers to step up and increase their security policies for their phones' operating systems."

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  1. POOP!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You shall all dine on mine fabulous POOP!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. What went wrong? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Remember when software was all about making the hardware perform a few specific functions? Now it's about making the hardware perform a few specific functions, and trying make the software itself not perform a few things. And we think we got them all.

  3. Virii isn't a word. by wheany · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Virii isn't a word, god damn it!

  4. The plural is "viruses." by yet+another+coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Virii" makes no sense. Nobody who follows any rules for making plurals would choose it.

  5. Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have searched the web and found nothing. What i'm curious about is if anyone else has the tendency to read magazines or books from the back to the front. I always seem to feel more comfortable reading in reverse. Has anyone out there heard of anything like this before?

  6. Plural of virus is viruses by nyri · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ok, I know this is nitpicking but I have to say this: The plural of "virus" is "viruses" not "virii". If you don't believe me, check your Oxford English Dictionary.
    Also, you can find more information from this webpage that has an analysis of those ignorant minds who use a words like "virii": Those confused souls who write *virii are tacitly positing the existence of the non-word *virius, and declining it as though it were like filius. It's true that l/r are both linguals that sometimes get interchanged, and that f/v are just a change in voicing, but that's just reaching. *Virii is still completely silly, so don't do that; otherwise, everyone will know you're just a blathering script kiddie.